Actor cleared of physical injury charges

ACTOR Mark Herras was cleared from physical injury and oral defamation charges filed by a taxi driver after the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office has dismissed the cases on Wednesday. In a one-page resolution, Assistant City Prosecutor Maria Raiisa Geronimo stressed that considering that both parties are residents of Quezon City, the parties should have undergone barangay conciliation before filing the case in prosecutor’s office. Complainant Salvador Ogdiman Jr. of Daan Tubo Street, University of the Philippines Campus, Quezon City filed the cases last year after Herras and his four unidentified companions allegedly hurled invectives on him before mauling him on October 26 at the corner of Scout Torillo and Scout Rallos streets.